YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY
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HARRISBURG DINNER.
Prof. Phelps Speaks for the Univer-
sity—Other Speakers.
The first annual meeting and banquet
of the Yale Alumni Association of Cen-
tral Pennsylvania was held at Harris- -
burg on Friday evening, Feb. 24.
There were about 50 guests present, the
majority being from Harrisburg, but a
number coming from towns a con-
siderable distance away. Before the
banquet a business session was held at
which reports were received and new
officers were elected. The latter were
as follows: President, Jacob F. Seiler,
‘54, Harrisburg; Vice-Presidents, C. L.
Munson, "75 L.S., Williamsport; G. M.
Franklin, ’58, Lancaster; A. G. Green,
49, Reading; J. A. Hoober, ’91 L.S.,
York; J. I. Chamberlin, ’73, and B. M.
Nead, 70; Executive Committee, L. D.
Gilbert, °65, Chairman; Charles L.
Bailey, Jr.; Charles B. McConkey, ’88;
George W. Reily, ’92S.; Henry B.
McCormick, ’92;
urer, Donald C. Haldeman, ’93.
The assembly room of the Harris-
burg. Club was most beautifully deco-
rated. All kinds of Yale flags covered
the walls and various individual trophies
of the gridiron, cinder path and dia-
mond were in evidence on the table and
about the room. A large bank of vio-
lets framed in graceful wreaths of smilax
stood on the table, while in the gallery
an ‘orchestra played during the evening.
Professor Seiler, who has sent from his
school three or four generations of Har-
risburg citizens to Yale College, pre-
sided, and in a most felicitous speech,
introduced the toastmaster of the even-
ing, Hon. L. D. Gilbert. Mr. Gilbert
was in great form and did not allow the
festivities of the evening to slacken up
fora moment. He made a witty speech
on introducing each speaker and
brought down the house with his sallies
against certain individuals present.
Letters of regret from President
Dwight, Governor Stone and others
were read and Mr. Gilbert then called
upon Prof. William Lyon Phelps to re-
spond to the toast, “The University.”
Mr. Phelps spoke something as follows:
WOULD GIVE THEM ALL JOBS.
“Judging from the enthusiasm with |
which these letters of regret have been -
received to-night, I think that I should
have made the hit. of the evening if I
had stayed at home. However, it is al-
ways an honor and a delight to respond
to the toast “Yale,” and it is an especial
pleasure to speak at the first meeting of
a newly organized alumni association.
I am glad to make an invasion into the
Keystone State, even if you do spell the
word key “Quay.” I had always sup-
posed that “Quay” could unlock any-
thing, but it seems to fail to unlock that
combination lock known as a deadlock.
As no one in Pennsylvania seems to be
anxious for this vacant senatorship, I
should in all modesty and humility like
to present myself as a candidate for this
office. I am determined that this honor
shall come to me entirely unsought,
even if it costs me ten thousand dollars.
I understand the game of politics well
enough to know that a senator’s chief
business is to get everything possible for
his friends and if you will take off your
coats and work for me, I promise that
when I am senator from Pennsylvania,
I sng give every Yale man here to-night
a job.”
Mr. Phelps then gave the greetings
of President Dwight to the Association
and complimented Dr. Seiler on his
having learned the secret of perpetual
youth. He spoke of Professor Phillips’
visit last year and of the enthusiasm the
Professor in Mathematics had been
charged with in Harrisburg. Mr.
Phelps then dwelt with regret on Presi-
dent Dwight’s going out of office and
eulogized the retiring. President for the
skill, tact, foresight and great personal
strength ‘of his administration. The
pleasures of Faculty life at Yale were
next dwelt upon and the great change in
the relations existing between Faculty
and students to-day as compared with
former times, was discussed. Mr.
Phelps devoted the chief part of his
speech to the question of Democracy at
Yale, combating in detail the common
assertion of alumni that the social life
among the students was to-day sadly
deteriorating. Mr. Phelps said that
student life at Yale was never in a more
Secretary and Treas-’
healthy condition as respects democratic
feeling than it is to-day.
After talking for a few minutes on
athletics and the dangers which attended
too great an absorption in football as
distinguished from other contests, Mr.
Phelps spoke of the growth of the
literary interests among the students,
and said that there was no greater moral
safeguard for a young man than to have
intellectual resources and a taste for
good reading. In conclusion Mr.
Phelps exhorted all those present to im-
mediately go into training for the Bi-
centennial and expressed the hope that
he would meet every Harrisburg
alumnus on the Yale Campus in 1901.
OTHER SPEECHES.
To the second toast, “Our Friends
the Enemy,” Hon. John D. McPher-
son responded for Princeton, and Dr.
John Oenslager for Harvard. Mr. Mc-
Pherson declared that there was more
natural fraternal feeling existing be-
tween Yale and Princeton than between
any other two colleges in the country,
because the two colleges were so similar
in their methods and ideals. Dr.
Oenslager read an eighteenth century
poem which he had discovered in an
old Yale periodical, which set off play-
fully the good feeling which existed be-
tween Yale and Harvard at that time.
Mr. C. L. Munson responded to the
toast, “Ourselves,” making a most fin-
ished and delightful speech. He made
an earnest plea for the new alumni hall
that was-to be built for the Bi-centennial
at Yale and urged every one present to
contribute to this structure.
Mr. C. Eugene Montgomery of Lan-
caster was next called upon, his subject
being the Yale spirit. His speech made
the rafters ring. This closed the regular
toast list, but a number of delightful
impromptu speeches were made by Pro-
fessor Himes of the college at Gettys-
burg; by Mr. William McCormick of
Reading; by Mr. McCall of York; by
Col. Seltzer, who spoke for Franklin
and Marshall, and by Mr. Bigler, whose .
quotation from Lord Bacon was re-
ceived with uproarious applause.
THE OLD YALE FENCE.
One of the pleasantest events of the
evening was the recital of the poem by
Mr. Joseph G. Ewing, who insisted that
the Fence in front of Durfee was not
and never could be the ‘true Yale
Fence. Vocal music was furnished by
a quartet from the Yale Glee Club,
composed of Messrs. Noble, Douglas,
Sheehan and Lyon. They were in ex-
cellent voice and their singing added
largely to the pleasures of the evening. ”
Nearly all of their songs were encored
and they were personally congratulated
by many of the audience. The first an-
nual meeting of this Association was so
successful that it promises most hope-
fully for the future.
Baseball Season Tickets.
If sufficient support is assured on the
part of the undergraduates, the Uni-
versity Baseball Association will adopt
the plan of issuing season tickets this
year. It is hoped that such a plan may
prove mutually beneficial, to the stu-
dents who attend the games regularly,
by allowing them to do so at a lower
price, and to the team, by furnishing
them better support at the smaller
games than has been given for the past
two or three seasons. The scheme was
tried last Fall by the Football Asso-
ciation and proved fairly successful.
The chief objections to the plan are the
difficulty in arranging satisfactorily the
guarantees or proportionate gate re-
ceipts for the visiting teams and the
possible necessity of employing extra
assistants at the gate.
These tickets of course will not ad-
mit the bearer to. the championship
games, but are good for the other
eleven games which will be played this
season at New Haven. If separate ad-
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